The People’s Republic of China (PRC) has instituted an unprecedented system of state-sponsored forced la- bor for Uyghur, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, and other minoritized citizens in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (or XUAR or Uyghur Region, also known as East Turkestan by many people from this colonized region).
Reports of forced labor in the Uyghur Region are legiti- mate and well-supported by documentary evidence and first-person testimony. Due to the near ubiquity of forced labor in the region paired with the inability to conduct credible due diligence, all products made in the Uyghur Region or by transferred Uyghur laborers should be pre- sumed to be made with forced labor.
This paper reflects on the implications of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic on modern slavery risks in supply chains. We first reason that the global supply and demand shock resulting from COVID-19 exacerbates workers’ vulnerability to modern s...Read More
The data in this report represents signals and cases from January 1, 2018 through December 31, 2018 and is accurate as of July 25, 2019. Cases of trafficking may be ongoing or new information may revealed to the National Hotline over time. Consequen...Read More
Edited by Genevieve LeBaron and Neil Howard. This is the second volume of the series Beyond Trafficking and Slavery Short Course. There is a growing and sober awareness among international policymakers and within global civil society that hum...Read More
40.3 million people – around 1 in every 185 people alive – experienced modern slavery or forced labour in 2016. States have committed to take immediate and effective measures to end modern slavery, forced labour and human trafficking by 2030, an...Read More
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